Bio: Hanseup Kim is a USTAR Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Utah and the Director for the Utah Nanofabrication Facility. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Eng. from the University of Michigan in 2006. He is a recipient of DARPA Young Faculty Award and NSF CAREER Award. His research focuses on micro/nano systems.
Abstract: The deployment of sensor networks into resource-limited settings, such as in a farm, is currently limited due to the lack of effective powering solutions for hundreds of scattered sensors. To mitigate such limitations we demonstrated a near-zero power gas sensor that normally sleeps, consuming <100 pW until being awoken by a trigger (target gas molecules) thus ultimately to enable significantly-extended battery-supported lifetime for rare event monitoring in an agriculture application.